Dracula

Description

Center REPertory Company Presents

DRACULA

Book by: John Balderston & Hamilton Deane
Direction by: Michael Butler
International and Broadway veteran Eugene Brancoveanu
starring in the title role

Featuring: Michael Barrett Austin*, Eugene Brancoveanu, Madeline H.D. Brown, Lauren Doucette, Thomas Gorrebeeck, Kate Jopson, Sam Leichter, Kendra Lee Oberhauser, Robert Sicular*, Michael Wiles*



DESCRIPTION:
Invite him in.
Experience the gothic classic as you've never seen it before. International and Broadway veteran Eugene Brancoveanu brings the title role to life in Bram Stoker's magnum Opus. Michael Butler directs with all the chills and thrills that this sexy masterpiece is famous for.

WHERE:
Center REPertory Company 1601 Civic Drive in downtown Walnut Creek. October 22 – November 20, 2010

DATES / TIMES / TICKET INFO:
Performances begin Friday, October 22 at 8PM. Opens Tuesday, October 26 at 7:30 PM. Closes Sunday, November 20th at 8PM.

TICKET INFORMATION:
For more information go to CenterREP.org or call 925.943.SHOW (7469). You can also visit the LCA Ticket Office at 1601 Civic Drive or the Ticket Office Outlet at Barnes & Noble in Walnut Creek.

Eugene Brancoveanu (DRACULA) Brancoveanu’s robust voice and superior stagecraft have earned him critical acclaim in both North America and Europe. Following recent performances of San Francisco Opera's The Little Prince, the San Francisco Chronicle lauds the superb cast as being "led by extravagantly gifted baritone Eugene Brancoveanu as the Pilot. With his unforced charisma, vocal clarity, and total heft, Brancoveanu managed the tricky feat of doing most of the show's heavy lifting..."
In 2008-09 Eugene Brancoveanu returned to the San Francisco Opera as Belcore in L'elisir d'amore; sings Karnak in Lalo's Le Roi d'ys with the American Symphony Orchestra; Count in Le nozze di Figaro with Livermore Valley Opera; sings as soloist in Elijah with University of California/Davis; in Carmina Burana with Peninsula Symphony Orchestra; and, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, continues his performing of Michael Tilson Thomas' The Tomashevskys, a work which he premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2005-06 and has reprised with the New World Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony. He performs it again at the Tanglewood Music Center under Seiji Ozawa in summer 2009. In the 2009-10 season he sings Marcello in La Bohème with Virginia Opera.
In 2007-08 he made his New York City Opera debut as Pandolfe in Cendrillon, sang the role of The Pilot in Portman's The Little Prince for San Francisco Opera, sang as soloist in Brahms' Requiem with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, and with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra in a concert of Bernstein repertoire. He made his debut with San Francisco Opera in 2005-06 as Second Prisoner in Fidelio. Also in 2006 he sang the role of Boris in Shostakovich's Moskau, Tscherkomuschki at Staatstheater Stuttgart. He held a prestigious appointment as an Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera for two seasons, directly following his critically acclaimed summer 2004 performances of Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia with the company's Merola Opera Program. With San Francisco Opera he has performed Christian in Un ballo in maschera, Marullo in Rigoletto, Moralès in Carmen, Frank in Die Fledermaus, Fiorello in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and the Innkeeper and the Captain in Manon Lescaut.
Originating the role of Marcello in Baz Luhrmann's Broadway production of La Bohème, the honorary Tony Award winner is also a recipient of a 2004 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award for his performances of this production in Los Angeles. Other career highlights include performing the role of Nicomedes in the rarely heard Lou Harrison opera, Young Caesar, for Ensemble Paralèlle; a recital as part of the prestigious Schwabacher Debut Recital Series; the title role in Le nozze di Figaro with the International Music Festival in Gut-Immlings, Germany; and the title role in Philip Glass's Orphée with the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg. Mr. Brancoveanu's numerous performances with the Romanian State Opera include the Count in Le nozze di Figaro, the title role in Don Giovanni, Silvio in I Pagliacci, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Escamillo in Carmen, and Uberto in La serva pedrona.
Mr. Brancoveanu is a graduate of the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz and the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg. Mr. Brancoveanu is also a recent winner of the National Young Opera Singer Competition in Leipzig, the International Music Award in Loenberg, and the International Opera contest "Ferruccio Tagliavini" Deutschlandsberg with Dame Joan Sutherland as Head of Jury.
Michael Butler (Director) is in his fifth season as Artistic Director of Center REP, where he directed Around the World in 80 Days, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Marriage of Figaro, How the Other Half Loves, Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Nixon’s Nixon, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Enchanted April, as well as playing Paravicini in REP’s production of The Mousetrap. His directing work has also been seen at San Jose Rep, Cleveland Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Laguna Playhouse, Marin Theatre Company, Aurora Theatre Company, San Jose Stage, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and The Juilliard School, of which he is a graduate. As an actor, Michael has worked on Broadway and off, in regional theatres, film and television. He is a published songwriter and the co-writer and composer of numerous music-theatre pieces, which he has directed and performed in NY, LA, and at festivals in India and Morocco. In his career as a performer he has also danced with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, portrayed the villainous Pierre LeChance on The Guiding Light, and played guitar and harmonica in many rock, blues, and country western bands at all the notable dives in NYC.

The design team features:
Scenic Designer: Kim A. Tolman, Lighting Designer: Kurt Landisman, Costume Designer: Victoria Livingston Hall, Costume Manager: Michael A. Berg, Sound Designer: Cliff Caruthers, Properties Artisan: Seren Helday, Casting Director: Jennifer Perry, and Stage Manager: Gregg Rehrig*

*appears courtesy of Actor’s Equity Association.

Center REPertory Company, the resident professional theatre company of the Lesher Center for the Arts (LCA), celebrates its 44th Subscription Season of high-quality theatrical productions during 2010-11. Center REPertory Company’s mission is to celebrate the power of the human imagination by producing emotionally engaging, intellectually involving, and visually astonishing live theatre and, through our outreach and education programs, to enrich and advance the cultural life of the communities we serve.

TICKETS: For more information go to CenterREP.org or call 925.943.7469. You can also visit the LCA Ticket Office at 1601 Civic Drive or the Ticket Office Outlet at Barnes & Noble in Walnut Creek.


Contact: Casi Maggio
Center REP Press Department
925.295.1413
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